news flash: alcohol more damaging than cannabis

[jrtom]

http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2007/5367.html

I'm not sure how much is novel here, and I haven't looked at the article itself. However, the idea that drugs should be judged by relatively objective criteria--the amount of damage that they do to the user, the extent to which they induce dependence, and the concomitant effects on society--is so straightforward and rational as to be positively revolutionary. *sardonic smile*

Comments

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Well, all I can say is, Bong Hits 4 Jesus, baby! :)

[ewin.livejournal.com]

Nah, the cultural aspect of any drug will probably always outweigh the other consequences of its use... and that cultural, ceremonial component is precisely what lawmakers ignore, to their detriment.